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Beam Inc (BEAM): Today's Featured Food & Beverage Underperformer

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Beam (
BEAM) pushed the Food & Beverage industry lower today making it today's featured Food & Beverage laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.4%. By the end of trading, Beam fell 89 cents (-1.4%) to $61.55 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 1.8 million shares of Beam exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 733,000 shares. The stock ranged in price between $61.19-$62.47 after having opened the day at $62.42 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $62.44. Other companies within the Food & Beverage industry that declined today were:
China Marine Food Group (
CMFO), down 6.8%,
Willamette Valley Vineyards (
WVVI), down 5.4%,
Amira Nature Foods (
ANFI), down 4.5%, and
Crumbs Bake Shop (
CRMB), down 4.4%.

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Beam Inc. manufactures and sells distilled spirits worldwide. The company's principal products include bourbon whiskey, tequila, Scotch whisky, Canadian whisky, vodka, cognac, rum, cordials, and ready-to-drink pre-mixed cocktails. Beam has a market cap of $10.31 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 25.9, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 2.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are six analysts that rate Beam a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Beam as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income, good cash flow from operations and increase in stock price during the past year. Although the company may harbor some minor weaknesses, we feel they are unlikely to have a significant impact on results.